Your pain is the breaking of the shellthat encloses your understanding.Much of your pain is self-chosen.It is the bitter potion by which thephysician within you heals your sick self.Therefore trust the physician, and drinkhis remedy in silence and tranquility.- Khalil Gibran

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those wholisten to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity,for they shall live forever.Forever.- Khalil Gibran

Love is the veil between lover and lover.- Khalil Gibran

Sow a seed and the earth will yield you a flower.Dream your dream to the skyand it will bring you your beloved.- Khalil Gibran

Love gives naught but itselfand takes naught but from itself.Love possesses notnor would it be possessed;For love is sufficient unto love.- Khalil Gibran

Work is love made visible.And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste,it is better that you should leave your work and sitat the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.- Khalil Gibran

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge,for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.- Khalil Gibran

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep,too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.- Khalil Gibran

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness.An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.- Khalil Gibran

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter,and sharing of pleasures.For in the dew of little things the heart finds itsmorning and is refreshed.- Khalil Gibran

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating visionbecause I see them through the mesh of a sieve.- Khalil Gibran

Your friend is your needs answered.- Khalil Gibran

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.- Khalil Gibran

I have learned silence from the talkative,toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind;yet,strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.- Khalil Gibran

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection.Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path,for they draw only corrupt blood.- Khalil Gibran

Progress lies not in enhancing what is,but in advancing toward what will be.- Khalil Gibran

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.- Khalil Gibran

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest,and then becomes a host, and then a master.- Khalil Gibran

And forget not that the earth delights to feel yourbare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.- Khalil Gibran

Generosity is giving more than you can,and pride is taking less than you need.- Khalil Gibran

And ever has it been known that love knows not itsown depth until the hour of separation.- Khalil Gibran

Love is trembling happiness.- Khalil Gibran

When you work you are a flute through whose heart thewhispering of the hours turns to music.Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent,when all else sings together in unison?- Khalil Gibran

I existed from all eternity and, behold,I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time,for my being has no end.- Khalil Gibran

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.- Khalil Gibran

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed,for love is sufficient unto love.- Khalil Gibran

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be contentin our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.- Khalil Gibran

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.- Khalil Gibran

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely morethan much knowledge that is idle.- Khalil Gibran

If you reveal your secrets to the wind,you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.- Khalil Gibran

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?- Khalil Gibran